Hess TLP Lesson Plan

Stage One: Desired Results
Mastery Objectives:
  1. Students will be able to ask/answer questions about families.
  2. Students will be able to evaluate their own performance through recordings on Voicethread.

Standards:
  1. NETS-S 2b: Students will communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
  2. Develop effective communication: Students will communicate effectivelyin the target language in face-to-face settings.
MFLII.1 The student will exchange spoken and written information and ideas in the target language. 2. Ask questions and provide responses based on self, others, and the immediate environment, such as exchanges concerning people and things, plans and events, feelings and emotions, and geographic direction and location.

Essential Question(s):
  1. Why does effective communication require purposeful application of
vocabulary and structures?
  1. How can we process information and interpret its meaning to develop
comprehension—and demonstrate that we understand what we have
read or heard?

Language functions:
  1. In oral and written Chinese, students will be able to create complex sentences using 2 verbs with textbook vocabulary.
  2. In oral and written Chinese, students will be able to ask and answer questions involving: who, whose, what, where, how many, how much and how old.
Stage Two: Assessment Evidence
· Pre-assessment/diagnostic strategies:
Previous quizzes
· Formative assessment tasks:
Written: Character of the day (daily)
Oral/Written: Autobiographical interviews
Oral: Voicethread
· Summative assessment task:
Written and oral quiz on Lessons 13 & 17
Stage Three: Learning Plan
· Sequence of your assessment, teaching, and learning tasks:
Character introductions using websites:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/azi/page1.htm
Character of the day assessments (daily)
Grammar instruction using guided worksheet
Written practice: Family tree template and My Family Tree
Oral practice: Who is in your family? (Interviews)
Listening and oral practice: Voicethread
Written practice: Collaborative game (Four heads together)
· Strategies for differentiation and flexible grouping:
Students will use the computers in small groups and will be able to receive individual help.
Students can replay the Voicethread until they are comfortable with the questions being asked.
· Academic vocabulary: Textbook Lessons 1-13, 17
· Extending learning beyond the lesson and classroom: Character practice and workbook, Lessons 13 and 17